David R. Montgomery
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 Varro recommended applying cattle dung in piles but thought bird droppings should be scattered. Cato recommended using human excrement if manure was unavailable. Columella even cautioned that hillside fields required more manure because runoff across bare, plowed fields would wash the stuff downslope. He also advised plowing manure under to keep it from drying out in the sun.
Above all else, Roman agronomists stressed the importance of plowing. Repeated annual plowing provided a well-aerated bed free of weeds. Varro recommended three plowings; Columella advised four. |
KC Craichy
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 Eating meat from cattle infected with E. coli is also responsible for urinary tract infections (UTIs), the most common infectious disease in women. One-third of women in the United States are diagnosed with at least one UTI that requires medical treatment before the age of 24. Many women are finding it difficult to manage this disease, as an increasing number of UTIs are resistant to sulpha drugs—medications used commonly to treat the infections. According to studies, these multi-drug-resistant UTIs may be linked to an unlikely source: cattle infected with a multi-drug-resistant strain of E. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Many organizations have demonstrated that if the medicinal plants, fruits, nuts, oils, and other resources like rubber, chocolate, and chicle (used to make chewing gums) are harvested sustainably, rainforest land has much more economic value today and more long-term income and profits for the future than if just timber is harvested or burned down for cattle or farming operations.
In fact, the latest statistics prove that rainforest land converted to cattle operations yields the landowner $60 per acre; if timber is harvested, the land is worth $400 per acre. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Hormone residues and additives from cattle-raising practices also mean that calcium and other minerals are incompletely absorbed.
In cattle tests, calves given their own mother's milk that had first been pasteurized, didn't live six weeks!
Linda Page, N.D. Healthy Healing
Cute milk-mustache ads aside, worldwide research increasingly indicates that milk consumption, especially in childhood, can lead to very serious problems: diabetes, heart disease, infant anemia, Crohn's disease, M.S., infertility, and asthma. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| BSE —Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease, is a condition caused by a prion found in the central nervous system of infected cattle.
Carbohydrates — Sugars made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Sugars may be simple (sucrose or sugar), complex (starch), or glycogen. Glycogen is usually stored in the liver and muscles.
Diabetes mellitus Type I — A disease characterized by a lack of insulin production. Also known as Insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM).
Diabetes mellitus Type II —A disease characterized by cells of the body being resistant to insulin. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Historically, lobbyists for the dairy and cattle industries have pressured the USDA to include recommendations for dietary intakes of meat and dairy products that are not always in the best interests of our health.
The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) recommendations made by the USDA and the "bigger is better" attitude that prevails in our country have created an opening for many vitamin and supplement producers to recommend taking very high doses of vitamins, sometimes up to 1,000 times the already-high recommended daily dose! |
Mark Lynas
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 The concept's originator, Garrett Hardin, gives the example of cattle herders using a shared pasture to illustrate the problem. Each herder stands to gain individually by adding another cow to the common - he gets more milk and beef. But if all herders act the same way, the result is overgrazing and the destruction of the shared resource. Psychological denial is integral to the process, Hardin writes: 'The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth, even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers'. |
| Owning ten thousand head of cattle would impress Botswanans far more than the possession of a posh condominium on New York's Fifth Avenue.
But sadly for Botswana, the long-range forecast shows very little rain. By the time global warming reaches three degrees, drought will have already become perennial in both this country and much of the rest of southern Africa. Even whilst tropical areas and the higher mid-latitudes drown in floods, the subtropics will be simply baking to death. The culprit is not, as one might expect, the parched land. It is the sea. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In Spain, the only country in Europe with large-scale commercial growing of GMO crops (and limited to use as cattle feed), Greenpeace reported that 25 percent of non-genetically-engineered corn samples in the rich agricultural regions of Aragon and Catalonia had traces of GMOs; numerous growers lost their certification and the price for their crop dropped by one third. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Steinman says, "Because multiple gestations are more prone to complications such as premature delivery, congenital defects and pregnancy-induced hypertension in the mother than singleton pregnancies, the findings of this study suggest that women contemplating pregnancy might consider substituting meat and dairy products with other protein sources, especially in countries that allow growth hormone administration to cattle. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Grass-fed beef provides a fatty acid profile superior to corn-fed beef raised on synthetic anabolic steroids and growth-promoting agents that are used to quickly fatten and mature the cattle.
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Carbohydrates: The Benefits of Soluble Fiber
Any mention of carbohydrates throws many people into a state of confusion: there are so-called good and bad carbs, complex carbs, high- and low-fiber carbs, sugars and starches, and so on. We will cut through the carb confusion and provide you some practical tips so you can break free of the bonds of food-restriction thinking. |
KC Craichy
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| A recent US DA study found that during the winter about 1 percent of the cattle found at feedlots carry E. coli 0157:H7 in their guts. This can rise to as much as 50 percent during the summer months.27
Eating meat from cattle infected with E. coli is also responsible for urinary tract infections (UTIs), the most common infectious disease in women. One-third of women in the United States are diagnosed with at least one UTI that requires medical treatment before the age of 24. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In the United States, most ranchers inject their cattle and sheep with synthetic steroid growth-promoting hormones. Hormone-treated meat is a very real health issue. In the late nineties, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the National Cancer Institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives, which can cause imbalances in natural hormone levels.
Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. |
KC Craichy
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| In humans and cattle, omega-6 promotes obesity. More omega-6 and less omega-3 is a recipe for obesity and inflammatory conditions such as blood vessel damage and cancer. cattle put on weight more rapidly on a high grain diet than they will in the pasture, even when they consume exactly the same number of calories. The omega-6 rich grain diet creates more fatty acid synthetase, an enzyme that promotes fat production. Meat from grain-fed animals contains as much as 20 times more omega-6 than omega-3. Grass-fed beef has an n-6/n-3 ratio of 3:1, ideal for human health. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| One single cattle ranch in Brazil that was co-owned by British Barclays Bank and one of Brazil's wealthiest families was responsible for the destruction of almost 500,000 acres of virgin rainforest. The cattle operation never made a profit, but government write-offs sheltered huge profits earned off of logging other land in the Brazilian rainforest owned by the same investors. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Azevedo asked the PhD in charge of the test plot to destroy the cotton rather than feed it to cattle. He argued that until the protein had been evaluated, the cows' milk or meat could be harmful. The scientist refused.
He approached everyone on his team at Monsanto to raise concenrs about the unknown protein, but no one was interested. "Once they understood my perspective, I was somewhat ostracized," he said. "Once I started questioning things, people wanted to keep their distance from me. I lost cooperation with other team members. |
| In February 2002, Glockner stopped feeding his cattle the GM corn, but by October 2002 another seven cows had died. The farmer, "who by this time was over 100,000 euros out of pocket called upon Syngenta and the Robert Koch Institute to conduct a proper investigation."55
Unfortunately, the institute did not impound the dead animals or the corn and did not undertake "comprehensive tests on the soil from the farm or any dung samples from the cows in question."56 Only one dead cow was examined. |
| When the cattle were turned out onto the stalks they just wouldn't eat them. "in
— Gary Smith, Montana
1. When given a choice, several animals avoid eating GM food.
2. In farmer-run tests, cows and pigs repeatedly passed up GM corn.
3. Animals that avoided GM food include cows, pigs, geese, squirrels, elk, deer, raccoons, mice, and rats.
"w: rhile my cows show a preferencefor open-pollinated corn over the hybrid varieties, they both beat Bt corn hands down. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 In England, where proportionately more sheep and lambs are raised than in the United States, sheep's brains and nerve tissue infected with the neurological disease scrapie made their way into cattle via commercial feeds, and the cattle began presenting horrifying symptoms—loss of motor control, raging fits, seizures, and ultimately death. Autopsy showed that the affected cows' brains were riddled with channels and holes, like sponges; hence the name of the disease: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The disease first came to public attention in 1986. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 But grass is the natural diet of cattle and sheep, and the meat of animals that are grass fed has a higher amount of omega-3 fatty acids. In my book, a grass-fed animal eating its natural diet is automatically superior from a nutritional point of view to its grain-fed factory-farmed brethren.
For another thing, growth hormones are not used on sheep. (Lambs are sheep that are less than one year old. |
Andreas Moritz
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 To keep the cattle alive until the deadline for slaughter at the "ripe old age" of 16 months, the cows need to be fed enormous doses of antibiotics. In the meantime, the microbes that respond to the massive biochemical assault of antibiotics, find ways to become immune to these drugs by mutating into resistant new strains.
Those unfortunate cows that don't drop dead prematurely due to all the poisons fed to them during their short earthly existence, experience an undignified and gruesome end of life in the slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant. |
| In other words, even if you were able to digest meat properly or ate "healthy" meat from free-range and non-grain-fed cattle, you would still increase your risk of colon cancer.
The kidneys, which extract waste products from the blood, also suffer from the overload of meat poisons, consisting mostly of nitrogenous wastes. Even moderate meat-eaters demand three times more work from their kidneys than vegetarians do. Young people generally may still be able to cope with this form of stress, but as they grow older, the risk of kidney damage increases greatly. |
| Given the current trend, by 2050, the increases in meat production will have reached a point where we could feed 4 billion extra people with the plant food that is now being used to raise cattle. Only 10 percent of the protein and calories we feed to our livestock are recovered in the meat we eat. |
| By contrast, the same grains fed to cattle ferment in their stomachs without a problem. Grains contain several substances that can reduce our ability and that of other animals to absorb minerals, trace elements, and even vitamin Bl. They also can block our digestive enzymes and render proteins indigestible. Wheat in particular contains material components that interfere with the digestion of fats by blocking such enzymes as the lipase of the pancreas. Our ancestors have traditionally used plenty of lard or oil when preparing dishes made from grain, often at the ratio of 1:1. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Johnson CT, Routledge JK, Suspected helleborus viridis poisoning of cattle. Vet Rec, 89:202, Aug 14, 1971
Green Tea
Camellia sinensis description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the very young downy leaves, from which green or black tea is prepared according to the treatment being given.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers grow short-pedicled and singly or in clusters of a few flowers in the leaf axils. They are white or pale pink and have a diameter of 3 to 5 cm. The flowers have between 5 and 7 sepals and petals at a time. The petals are fused at the base with the numerous stamens. |
Michael Pollan
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 A century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans. This simplification of the agricultural landscape leads directly to the simplification of the diet, which is now to a remarkable extent dominated by—big surprise—corn and soybeans. |
| But some of our food animals, such as cows and sheep, are ruminants that evolved to eat grass; if they eat too many seeds they become sick, which is why grain-fed cattle have to be given antibiotics. Even animals that do well on grain, such as chickens and pigs, are much healthier when they have access to green plants, and so, it turns out, are their meat and eggs. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Thousands of dead dogs and cats, heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, whole skunks, rats and raccoons—all waiting to be processed. In the 90-degree heat, the piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses ...
Rendering is the process of cooking raw animal material to remove the moisture and fat. The rendering plant works like a giant kitchen. The cooker, or chef, blends the raw product to maintain a certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste, and supermarket rejects ... |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The natural diet of cattle is grass. It is absolutely not grain. Yet most of the beef that comes to us via traditional routes has been eating nothing but grain. When a ruminant like a cow is taken off its natural diet of pasture and fattened on grain, it loses nutrients. According to one reputable source, grain-fed meat has only one-quarter as much vitamin E, one-eighth as much beta-carotene, and, probably most important, one-third as many omega-3 fatty acids. (This makes sense—grain has far fewer of these nutrients than fresh pasture! |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Abortifacient effects of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and common Juniper (Juniperus communis ) on cattle. Vet Hum Toxicol; 40(5):260-263. 1998.
Hauser SP. Alzoon - Krebsheilmittel oder Medizinalsirup? Praxis ; 86:1113-1115 1997.
Jones SM. Zhong Z, Enomoto N et al. Dietary Juniper berry oil minimizes hepatic reperfusion injury in the rat. Hepatology; 28(4): 1042-1050. 1998.
Jonkov S & Naidenov G. Juniper bath treatment of the neuroasthenic neurosis. Folia Medica; 16(5/6):291-296. 1974.
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